No story here, just a depiction of a common event: a MOUNTAIN of empty beer cans in the hotel hall. A common site, though at an uncommon volume. (Usually the empty beer cans are amongst a pile of empty pizza[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Katsucon still hasn’t quite figured out how to make use of the simultaneously massive and unwieldy space that is the Gaylord. For all the huge rooms they offer, actually finding places for crowds to walk in is apparently difficult. Example:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apparently the Raleigh Convention Center was extra worried about people getting their costumes caught in the escalators or something, so lowly staffers ended up having to stand right there with warning signs at all times. No, there is no way[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been to big voice actor things like this before, but they were comedic affairs involving goofy Flash Gordon scripts and the like. Otakon’s panel was a far more varies affair, though, featuring such works as the issue of Sandman[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As promised, we’re going through another set of comic ideas that didn’t quite make it onto the Internet the first time around! I’m starting with Otakon and working backwards, since that’s the only one here that even comes close to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First of all, I need to confess that I generally avoid non-con staff on general principle, so this didn’t actually happen to ME. However, every convention I go to, I hear new horror stories about how rude and unhelpful the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On a purely technically level, Anime USA ’09 was, at best, average. And yet, on a personal level, I think it was one of the best conventions I’ve EVER attended,it was certainly the best AUSA. It was the little things,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, here’s the deal: When I’m coming up with comic ideas at cons, there’s inevitably one or two potentially good ideas that I manage to forget sometime between having it and getting access to paper. Even worse, I’ll inevitably come[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…